Every school had the scruffy kid with unkempt hair, two silvery lines on their top lip, holes in the knees of their trousers, and knackered shoes with untied laces.
There was often a strange smell in the air […]

Good Vibrations
Northern Ireland label run on a shoestring by Terri Hooley.
No doubt the most famous single on the label was The Undertones – Teenage Kicks – that was the fourth release.
This was the first, and […]

Dave Robinson and Jake Riveria bringing Pub Rock to the masses (with a £400 loan from Lee Brilleaux).
Nick Lowe was producer-in-chief and the first release (Stiff BUY1) on the new label with So It Goes […]

Generation X becoming Gen X presented no real problem. Alphabet and chronology was preserved.
When John Wesley Harding decided to release a new album under his real name, Wesley Stace, confusion reigned.